Neck-yoke



. (No Model) B. M. OBOYLAN & J THOMPSON.

NECK YOKE.

No. 443,374. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNARD M. OBOYLAN AND JOHN THOMPSON, OIg CORNING, OHIO.

NECK-YOKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 443,374, dated December23, 189C.

Application filed July 1,1890. Serial No. 357,403. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BERNARD M. OBoYLAN and JOHN THOMPSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Corning, in the county of Perry and Stateof Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Neck-Yokes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to neck-yokes, and has for its object to producesimple, durable, and inexpensive anti-friction attachments forconnecting the neck-yoke bar with the hames and with the pole of acarriage or other vehicle.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of partshereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a viewof a carriage neck yoke embodying our improvements. Figs. 2 and 3 aredetail views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a neck-yoke bar ofthe usual construction.

On the center of the neck-yoke bar 1 is freely supported a movablecollar 2, which may be made of leather or metal, as preferred. Thecollar 2 supportsa pole-holder 3, which may also be made either of metalor leather. The pole-holder 3 is attached to the collar 2 by a swivel orpivotal connection 4, and has an eye 5 for engaging the carriage-pole. Astaple 6, inserted in the neck-yoke bar 1 and loosely embracing thecollar 2, serves to limit thelongitudinalmovement of said bar and collarwith relation to each other.

On each end of the neck-yoke bar 1 is freely supported a metal orleather collar 7, which is held on the bar by a staple 8, that looselyembraces the collar in such away as not to interfere with its necessarymovements. The collars 7 each support a strap-attaching clip 9, that maybe made of leather or metal. This clip 9 is attached to the collar 7 bya swivel or pivotal connection 10, and is pro vided on its oppositesides with coincident slots 11 for engagement of a strap 12, thatconnects with the hames. Each clip 9 preferably consists of a strap ofleather or metal doubled at its center, near which point it is providedwith the slits 11, and having its ends connected with the collar, asshown.

It willbe seen that the collars and attached clips or holders are soconstructed and arranged that each collar and connected clip or holderconstitute a universal anti-friction attachment that will save wear andexpense wherever used, either as a neck-yoke attaclr ment or in otherparts of a harness or elsewhere, as desired. When the collars are madeof leather, they maybe provided witha lining of rolled metal to preventthe leather from stretching. By means of these attachments the wear ofthe neck-yoke bar and breast-straps is greatly diminished by reason ofthe movable collars 2 and 7 being freely supported on the neck-yoke barand arranged to have a swiveled or pivotal connection with the attachedstrip-clips and the pole-holder, as described. The operation of theseattachments and their utility in greatly diminishing wear and frictionwill be readily understood.

The devices are simple and inexpensive and can be readily applied to theuses for which they are adapted and designed.

What we claim as our invention is- 1. The combination, with theneck-yoke bar, of the movable collars freely supported on the ends ofsaid bar and the slotted clips having a pivoted connection with saidcollars, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the movable collars, of the doubled clippivotally connected with said collars and provided with the slots forengaging a strap, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the neck-yoke bar provided with staples at itscenter and ends, the movable collars surrounding said bar within thestaples, and the clips or holders having a pivotal connection with thesaid collars, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

BERNARD M. OBOYLAN. JOHN THOMPSON.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. DONAHUE, A. I. MCDONALD.

